¹⁷ Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him.^(A)

³⁵ and thirty-two thousand persons in all, women who had not known a man by sleeping with him.

³⁹ At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to the vow he had made. She had never slept with a man. So there arose an Israelite custom that

⁴ The young woman was very beautiful. She became the king’s attendant and served him, but the king did not know her sexually.

¹⁹ They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. Elkanah knew his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.^(A)